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11 Hollywood Stars Who Did Big Business on Broadway in 2014 (Photos)
These movie and TV veterans filled seats and drew legions of fans to the Great White Way
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‘A Particle of Dread’ Theater Review: Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea Eyeball Oedipus
Rea may be the first Oedipus to play the role in blood-spattered overalls, and he deftly handles Shepard’s freewheeling segues from tragedy to slapstick and back
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‘A Delicate Balance’ Theater Review: Glenn Close Revisits More Than One Diva
Close’s strong, unyielding matriarch is sister to Norma Desmond from “Sunset Boulevard,” the actress’ last role on Broadway twenty years ago
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‘By the Water’ Theater Review: Superstorm Sandy Returns, This Time with Glimpses of Arthur Miller
Sharyn Rothstein’s new play recalls Miller’s “All My Sons,” and to her credit, the absorbing story deserves more than its current one act
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‘Punk Rock’ Theater Review: Simon Stephens’ New Play Is Much More Than a ‘Curious Incident’
Some of the British slang doesn’t translate, but Stephens’ grasp of those young hormones that can create a “Lord of the Flies” situation does cross the pond
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‘Side Show’ Theater Review: Bill Condon Gives Twin Dreamgirls Another Shot at Stardom
In this smashing new revival, the Hilton sisters are treated as “freaks,” but Condon quickly ups the glam quotient to create a novel Cinderella story
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‘The River’ Theater Review: Hugh Jackman Gives a Lesson in Fly-Fishing
There’s much talk about reflection and recycling in Jez Butterworth’s play about a devoted fisherman-womanizer. But where’s the sexual heat?
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‘Lost Lake’ Theater Review: John Hawkes Channels Wile E. Coyote
Hawkes delivers a great performance — and that’s even before he speaks a word on stage. Fortunately, he gets to talk a lot in David Auburn’s new play
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‘Sticks and Bones’ Theater Review: Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman Tackle Ozzie and Harriet
It’s not torture or ISIS that trouble America’s TV family when a son comes home from Vietnam; but in this harrowing revival, the nightmare is the same
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‘The Oldest Boy’ Theater Review: The Reincarnation of a Bernardo Bertolucci Movie
Like in “Little Buddha,” the parents in Sarah Ruhl’s new play send their son to Nepal to be tested, enthroned, and educated. And so the lecture begins
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‘The Real Thing’ Theater Review: Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal Live Up to Tom Stoppard’s Title
Actors’ chemistry is like Hepburn and Tracy’s only in reverse; she’s solid and implacable, he’s high-strung and nervously pecking around for a way to chip into her guarded world
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‘The Last Ship’ Theater Review: Sting Takes a Cruise to Nowhere
At its best, Sting’s score is pre-Sondheim. But it’s good pre-Sondheim. Too bad John Logan and Brian Yorkey’s book about a boat doesn’t float
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‘Disgraced’ Theater Review: Josh Radnor, Gretchen Mol Join Hari Dhillon for a Broadway Brawl
It’s time for the theater world to ‘fess up to the fact that many TV and movie stars are famous in other media for good reason
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‘The Fortress of Solitude’ Theater Review: Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Via ‘Avenue Q’
Some of Michael Friedman’s tunes are real keepers, but missing in Itamar Moses’ book and Daniel Aukin’s direction is the meanness as well as the creative energy of 1970’s Brooklyn
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‘On the Town’ Theater Review: Sailors on Leave, Broads on the Make
In John Rando’s fun, new Broadway revival, everyone dances like there’s no tomorrow in wartime New York
